Tournament: Harvard | Round: 6 | Opponent: Chaminade JM | Judge: Danna Leal
AC: v2 Neolib Cap KAFF
Affirm. Definitions in cross x.
0.40 Part 1 is Framing
ROB
The role of the ballot is to endorse the team that provides the best methodology to challenge neoliberal ideology in debate. Failure to reject the corporatization of thought means losing the last remaining place where critical dialogue and dissent can take place. Prefer my role of the ballot as this creates real pedagogical change. The role of the ballot redefines the voters of fairness and education in the real world therefore prioritize this aff over theory.
Giroux ‘10
Giroux, Henry A., Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Ontario. “The US University under Siege: Confronting Academic Unfreedom.” A Concise Companion to American Studies. ed. Rowe, John Carlos. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
Given the influence and resources of this long campaign against progressive institutions and critical thought
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in the debate space have political effects. Claiming otherwise tacitly endorses Neolib.
Shor ‘92
, Ira (Professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, where he teaches composition and rhetoric) Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change, 1992, p 12-13, https://books.google.com/books?id=IQiqAAAAQBAJandpg=PA12andlpg=PA12anddq=22People+are+naturally+curious.+They+are+born+learners22andsource=blandots=w6g36Hirygandsig=UeWZ0MDLML2WHTCKQHnp0_p81RQandhl=enandsa=Xandei=BtUCVeruLMSiyASB-oG4Cgandved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepageandq=22People20are20naturally20curious.20They20are20born20learners22andf=false
People are naturally curious. They are born learners. Education can either develop or
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authorities, waiting to be told what to do and what things mean.
1.20 Part 2 is the Corporate University
Higher Education through critical speech for the masses is a direct threat to Neolib. This is the optimal setting for the performance.
Giroux ’14 I
Henry. Henry A. Giroux:Neoliberalism, Democracy and the University as a Public Sphere. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23156-henry-a-giroux-neoliberalism-democracy-and-the-university-as-a-public-sphere. Truthout.Interview. Tuesday, 22 April 2014 09:44.DA=7/7/16.-SVJK)
Higher education is one of the few public spheres left where students can learn to
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critical thinking skills, commodifying the student as gears of the working class.
Giroux ’14 II
Henry. Henry A. Giroux:Neoliberalism, Democracy and the University as a Public Sphere. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23156-henry-a-giroux-neoliberalism-democracy-and-the-university-as-a-public-sphere. Truthout.Interview. Tuesday, 22 April 2014 09:44.DA=7/7/16.-SVJK)
More striking still is the slow death of the university as a center of critique
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Neolib proxemics dehumanize by treating the body as a means rather than an ends
Ackerman ‘12
Seth Ackerman, Jacobin Magazine, 11.21.12, on the editorial board of Jacobin and a doctoral candidate in history at Cornell. "The Twinkie Defense, or What Does “Uncompetitive” Mean?", https://www.jacobinmag.com/2012/11/the-twinkie-defense-or-what-does-uncompetitive-mean/ bcr
But the union got blamed instead, and that points to a fascinating aporia in
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little Bastilles.
And, this dehumanization is the worst of all impacts
Berube ‘97
Berube, David. Professor. English. University of South Carolina “Nanotechnological Prolongevity: The Down Side," NanoTechnology Magazine, 3:5, June-July, 1997, 1-6. http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/faculty/berube/prolong.htm. Also quoting Montagu and Madison, esteemed Scientist and Writer, professor of American Studies at University of Hawaii
Assuming we are able to predict who or what are optimized humans, this entire resultant worldview smacks of eugenics and Nazi racial science. This would involve valuing people as means. Moreover, there would always be a superhuman more super than the current ones, humans would never be able to escape their treatment as means to an always further and distant end. This means-ends dispute is at the core of Montagu and Matson's treatise on the dehumanization of humanity. They warn: "its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war, plague, famine, or natural calamity on record -- and its potential danger to the quality of life and the fabric of civilized society is beyond calculation. For that reason this sickness of the soul might well be called the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.... Behind the genocide of the holocaust lay a dehumanized thought; beneath the menticide of deviants and dissidents... in the cuckoo's next of America, lies a dehumanized image of man... (Montagu and Matson, 1983, p. xi-xii). While it may never be possible to quantify the impact dehumanizing ethics may have had on humanity, it is safe to conclude the foundations of humanness offer great opportunities which would be foregone. When we calculate the actual losses and the virtual benefits, we approach a nearly inestimable value greater than any tools which we can currently use to measure it. Dehumanization is nuclear war, environmental apocalypse, and international genocide. When people become things, they become dispensable. When people are dispensable, any and every atrocity can be justified. Once justified, they seem to be inevitable for every epoch has evil and dehumanization is evil's most powerful weapon.
The impact is racism and massive state violence.
Giroux ’14 III
Henry A. Giroux, Henry A. Giroux: The Militarization of Racism and Neoliberal Violence, Truthout, 8-16-2014, Accessible Online at http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25660-the-militarization-of-racism-and-neoliberal-violence 7-24-2016
Under the regime of neoliberalism, the circle of those considered disposable and subject to
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black youth, immigrants and others have to die before the struggle deepens?
Part 3 is the Neolib Impact
0.50 Environmental Deterioration
Neoliberal logic accelerates environmental degradation—the commodification of resource markets and short term ecological destruction create new profit streams for the market
-Fletcher ‘12
(Robert, Assistant Professor of Human Geography @ the University of Utrecht, “Capitalizing on chaos: Climate change and disaster capitalism,” http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/capitalizing-chaos-climate-change-and-disaster-capitalism)
In a sense, the application of Klein’s disaster capitalism thesis to environmental policy can
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the root cause of resource depletion, global warming, and ecological collapse.
Smith ‘13
Richard Smith, 11-14-2013, (Richard Smith is an economic historian. He wrote his UCLA history Ph.D. thesis on the transition to capitalism in China and held post-docs at the East-West Center in Honolulu and Rutgers University, “SLEEPWALKING TO EXTINCTION”, http://www.adbusters.org/article/sleepwalking-to-extinction/ , MRV)
Why are we marching toward disaster, “sleepwalking to extinction” as the Guardian’s
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ecological concerns.
Environmental destruction is inevitable without a shift away from capitalism
-Sweezy ‘04
Paul M. Sweezy (1910-2004) co-founded Monthly Review in 1949 with Leo Huberman (1903-1968). A professor of economics at Harvard and later a visiting professor and lecturer at many different American universities, Sweezy was the author of A Theory of Capitalist Development (1942) and, with Paul A. Baran, Monopoly Capital (1966). Capitalism and the Environment, 2004 › Volume 56, Issue 05 (October)
Since there is no way to increase the capacity of the environment to bear the
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necessitates endless production and consumption cycles that destroy the environment and make warming inevitable
Movahed ‘16
Masoud Movahed is a researcher in development economics at New York University. He contributes to, among others, Harvard Economics Review, Yale Journal of International Affairs and Al Jazeera English., Feb 15, 2016, “Does capitalism have to be bad for the environment,” World Economic Forum, 6/23/16, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/02/does-capitalism-have-to-be-bad-for-the-environment/
Ecologists and environmental scientists often take “overpopulation” and the subsequent exploitation of natural
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increases in consumption and economic incentives for environmental degradation are greater than for protection
-Ehrenfeld ‘08
(David, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources @ Rutgers University, “The Environmental Limits to Globalization”, Conservation Biology, Vol. 22 No. 5 2008)
Bram Buscher’s (2008) critique of the neoliberalization of conservation is right on the
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itself, requires a delusion-free reconciliation of economic with moral concerns.
0.50 War
Capitalism causes war, securitization, resources wars, and corporate irresponsibility this magnifies every conflict - leads to extinction
Werlhof ‘15
Claudia Von Werlhof, 5-25-2015, (Claudia von Werlhof, born in 1943 in Berlin; 1988 Professor of Political Science/Women's Studies, "Neoliberal Globalization: Is There an Alternative to Plundering the Earth?," Global Research, http://www.globalresearch.ca/neoliberal-globalization-is-there-an-alternative-to-plundering-the-earth/24403 , MRV)
Those who get in their way or challenge their “rights” are vilified,
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through capitalism is going to cause a nuclear war between the US and China
Symonds ‘16
Peter Symonds, 5-30-2016, (Writer for the World Socialist Website, “The danger of nuclear war between the US and China”, https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/05/30/pers-m30.html, MRV)
Last week’s G7 summit in Japan was dominated by two interconnected issues: the deepening
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movement of the international working class based on the perspective of socialist internationalism.
2.05 Part 4 is the Siege
Collapse of neolib is inevitable because of economic and environmental trends – multiple structural trends make resuscitation impossible, which means its try-or-die for the alt
Li ‘10
Minqi, Chinese Political Economist, world-systems analyst, and historical social scientist, currently an associate professor of Economics at the University of Utah “The End of the “End of History”: The Structural Crisis of Capitalism and the Fate of Humanity”, Science and Society Vol. 74, No. 3, July 2010, 290–305)
In 2001, the U. S. stock market bubble started to collapse,
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pollution.
Free speech zones are designed to segregate and undermine free speech
Prostel ‘14
Virginia Prostel, April 22, 2014, “How Much Free Speech Will Your Child Have at College?,” Bloomberg News, https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-04-22/free-speech-zones-and-other-college-lies, Accessed 12-6-2016
To people unfamiliar with campus jargon, this question sounds like it's asking for evidence
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hidden form of censorship forces protest into spaces
where it is ineffective.
Mitchell ‘03
Don Mitchell, Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse’s Maxwell School: 2003 (“The Liberalization of Free Speech: Or, How Protest in Public Space is Silenced” Stanford Agora Vol. 4 p.4-8 Available at agora.stanford.edu/agora/volume4/articles/mitchell/mitchell.pdf Accessed on 12/11/16)IG
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But, of course, the Supreme Court had considered New York’s law
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higher education through critical speech which is a direct threat to neolib
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Plan Text
Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict constitutionally protected speech to free speech zones.
Solvency
Free speech zones limit student discourse and should be prohibited
Hudson ‘16
(David L. Hudson Jr. is a First Amendment expert and law professor who serves as First Amendment Ombudsman for the Newseum Institute’s First Amendment Center. He contributes research and commentary, provides analysis and information to news media. He is an author, co-author or co-editor of more than 40 books, including Let The Students Speak: A History of the Fight for Free Expression in American Schools (Beacon Press, 2011), The Encyclopedia of the First Amendment (CQ Press, 2008) (one of three co-editors), The Rehnquist Court: Understanding Its Impact and Legacy (Praeger, 2006), and The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book (Visible Ink Press, 2008). He has written several books devoted to student-speech issues and others areas of student rights. He writes regularly for the ABA Journal and the American Bar Association’s Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases. He has served as a senior law clerk at the Tennessee Supreme Court, and teaches First Amendment and Professional Responsibility classes at Vanderbilt Law School and various classes at the Nashville School of Law), "How Campus Policies Limit Free Speech," Huffington Post, 6/1/2016 AZ
Restricting where students can have free speech
In addition, many colleges and universities have free speech zones. Under these policies, people can speak at places of higher learning in only certain, specific locations or zones. While there are remnants of these policies from the 1960s, they grew in number in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a way for administrators to deal with controversial expression. These policies may have a seductive appeal for administrators, as they claim to advance the cause of free speech. But, free speech zones often limit speech by relegating expression to just a few locations. For example, some colleges began by having only two or three free speech zones on campus. The idea of zoning speech is not unique to colleges and universities. Government officials have sought to diminish the impact of different types of expression by zoning adult-oriented expression, antiabortion protestors and political demonstrators outside political conventions. In a particularly egregious example, a student at Modesto Junior College in California named Robert Van Tuinen was prohibited from handing out copies of the United States Constitution on September 17, 2013 - the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. Van Tuinen was informed that he could get permission to distribute the Constitution if he preregistered for time in the “free speech zone.” But later, Van Tuinen was told by an administrator that he would have to wait, possibly until the next month. In the words of First Amendment expert Charles Haynes, “the entire campus should be a free speech zone.” In other words, the default position of school administrators should be to allow speech, not limit it. Zoning speech is troubling, particularly when it reduces the overall amount of speech on campus. And many free speech experts view the idea of a free speech zone as “moronic and oxymoronic.” College or university campuses should be a place where free speech not only survives but thrives.
Free speech zones are intentionally designed to suppress dissent
Weberman ‘10
Melissa Weberman, J.D., Law clerk to the Honorable Charles R. Wilson, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2010, “University Hate Speech Policies and the Captive Audience Doctrine,” Ohio Northern University Law Review, 36 Ohio N.U.L. REV. 553, p. np.
Under the second requirement, free speech zones may restrict more speech than is necessary
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of free speech zones and rather free speech all over campus.
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